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From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
To: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: Make scmi core independent of transport type
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 12:22:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191231122245.GA35523@bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM0PR04MB44817F7C0FB0E6D417823B4A88260@AM0PR04MB4481.eurprd04.prod.outlook.com>

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 02:50:40AM +0000, Peng Fan wrote:
>
> > Subject: [PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: Make scmi core independent of
> > transport type
> >
> > The SCMI specification is fairly independent of the transport protocol, which
> > can be a simple mailbox (already implemented) or anything else.
> > The current Linux implementation however is very much dependent of the
> > mailbox transport layer.
> >
> > This patch makes the SCMI core code (driver.c) independent of the mailbox
> > transport layer and moves all mailbox related code to a new
> > file: mailbox.c.
> >
> > We can now implement more transport protocols to transport SCMI
> > messages.
> >
> > The transport protocols just need to provide struct scmi_transport_ops, with
> > its version of the callbacks to enable exchange of SCMI messages.
>
> Will there be v2? will this be used to replace smc mailbox?
>

There's a requirement for virtio based transport too. I need to do
a thorough review once I am able to gather the details. Feel free to
add SMC based transport based on this patch if you can, you need not
wait for me. I am fine with the approach as such.

Also I was waiting to get some feedback from Arnd or Jassi.

--
Regards,
Sudeep

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-31 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-29  9:31 [PATCH] firmware: arm_scmi: Make scmi core independent of transport type Viresh Kumar
2019-12-03 12:00 ` Sudeep Holla
2019-12-10 10:18   ` Viresh Kumar
2019-12-09 18:13 ` Cristian Marussi
2019-12-10  5:34   ` Viresh Kumar
2019-12-10 18:46     ` Sudeep Holla
2019-12-11  2:43       ` Viresh Kumar
2019-12-31  2:50 ` Peng Fan
2019-12-31 12:22   ` Sudeep Holla [this message]
2019-12-31 20:09 ` Jassi Brar
2020-01-06 11:00   ` Sudeep Holla
2020-01-09  8:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-09  9:16   ` Viresh Kumar
2020-01-10 12:22     ` Sudeep Holla
2020-01-09  9:34   ` Viresh Kumar
2020-01-09 10:15     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-10 12:27     ` Sudeep Holla
2020-01-13  6:45       ` Peng Fan
2020-01-10 12:31     ` Sudeep Holla

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